The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-14
HOxE PATRoNAGE.

Elsewhere will be found eommunl-
cation from a "Journeyman Cigar
maker of Emporia," which has some
extremely pertinent points and which |
is well worthy of careful consideration
by every citizen of Emporia. as there is
more truth than poetry in
the ideas suggested, and, withal, a
great deal of food for reflection. Why
our smokers should patronize eastern
by using eastern brands
of cigars, well knowing that in doing
so they are using an article manufac
tured from all kinds of refuse picked
up in the slums of our large cities, is
conundrum hard to solve, the more es-
pecially when every experienced smok-
er in the city is well aware that amuch
better article of home manufacture
can be purchased at the same price,
both as to flavor and make. 1t is a
we'll known fact that many persons
earn living in the larger cities by
gathering cigar stumps from the gut
tiers of the streets and in and around
hotels and saloons, cuspadors and other
vile places, and that these stumps are
manufactured into cigars in the tene
ment house factories. And these are
the brands that some of our people pre-
fer to what are made in our midst by
our fellow citizens.
But this is only on par with great
many other foolish practices of SIM
liar tenor INDUCED in by our people.
Many Of our merchants even set the
example which they are the first to find
fault with, not few of them sending
away from home for stationery and get
ting their printing done in larger cities
or using rubt CT stamps for envelopes OF
noteheads, nc because of cheapness,
but, as it see MS, for pure cussedness.
And this is not written in spirit Of
jealousy or for lack of patronage by US,
as THE NEWS does not run a job print
ing department. An exchange thus
pithily points its remarks on this sub
ject:
When a man who doesn't advertise,
and sends away from home for his
goods and gets his printing done in
large cities or uses rubber stamp for
envelopes and noteheadS, is heard talk
ing loud and long about the duty of
patroniZing home industry and pulling
together for the good of the town, the
imps in charge of the hypocrite's de-
partment of the internal regions pile
more birthstone on the fires and then all
join hands and execute war dance in
anticipation of the fun they'll have
when his frame comes SWining down on
the hook and chain.
Another illustration of this same
near-sighted policy is given in another
of our exchanges, as follows.
We heard of a very small trick the
other day, and hope nobody in Kansas
is quite so little. A man back east near
new town went to one of it's mer-
made it out three dollars higher than a
merchant in a town eighteen miles
away. The first party hired four teams
at $3.50 per day, to go to the distant
town and haul over the goods. And
all this for three dollars. Another
resident of the same town heard he
could buy an article twenty-five
cents cheaper in a place seventeen
| miles off and he hitched up, lost day,
travelled "a miles, paid forty cents to
the liverymen and twenty-five to ho-
much did either of them make? Such
| occurrences as these are said to be very
common, and yet the people around
this town expect it to boom.
Now, as the general feeling in ouI
midst is that it is about time our city
was taking the position to which she is
entitled to by our many natural advan'
tages, in the ranks of thriving Kansa:
cities, let us start anew and start in
the line suggested by "Cigarmaker, .
and under ali possible circumstances
patronize Home Manufactures" as &
first and best means of booming" oul
beautiful city.
THE NEWS can not be counted as 8
| champion of the boycott system, but al
the same time it is free to express its
conviction that if ever there was jus
tifiable case where the boycott should
be used, it assuredly is the case of east
ern tenement-made cigars, as they must
of necessity be breeders of disease and
the cause of death in many instances
from the fact that blood diseases are
easily communicated through the mu
cous membrane of the lips and mouth
And that these articles are full of poi
son is beyond dispute. Therefore lei
every good citizen, when he wants g
cigar, call for one of home manufac.
ture.
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